Just as unwanted junk advertising is commonly known as “spam”, unwanted AI-generated junk content could be called “slop”. At least, that’s the opinion of Simon Willison, who noticed the term and suggested it in a blog post. And I think it fits very well. He points out that not all AI-generated content is automatically slop: …
This article reveals how a company called AdVon seems to be infiltrating the media industry with fake authors and possibly AI-generated content. According to the write-up, AdVon supplies publications with countless product reviews peppered with affiliate links designed to generate traffic from Google search queries. It is suspected that AdVon uses AI to create the …
Scammers have used the faces and voices of women from social media to create fake ads for offensive products using AI technology. Although the victims feel that their personal rights have been violated, there seems to be little legal recourse against this new form of identity theft, as the perpetrators are difficult to catch and …
Nebojša Vujinović Vujo buys abandoned news websites and fills them with AI-generated content to generate advertising revenue. Vujo’s most profitable acquisition was The Frisky, which generated over $500,000 in revenue in its first year. However, traffic to its sites has declined over time, possibly because search engines are getting better at identifying spam content. More …